🔊 Imagine hearing this during a walk through the woods 🔊— CBC N.L. (@CBCNL) June 29, 2018
Artists and choirs turn forest trail into set for magical show https://t.co/1tdeO13yQK pic.twitter.com/o9wrt38Nld
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🔊 Imagine hearing this during a walk through the woods 🔊— CBC N.L. (@CBCNL) June 29, 2018
Artists and choirs turn forest trail into set for magical show https://t.co/1tdeO13yQK pic.twitter.com/o9wrt38Nld
1. GermanyRead about the European runners up here.
While you do hear stories about the odd German celebrity who made a stink (looking at you, Marlene Dietrich), at the heart of it, Hitler wouldn’t have been able to achieve anything without his very civil base. They kicked things off with a very civil Kristallnacht and remained civil throughout the passage of a series of restrictive laws against Jews. They were really great about not making too many waves when Jews were stripped of their businesses and property and were very cool about the whole deportation thing. High-ranking administration officials were able to eat in any restaurant they wanted throughout the entire war! Great job, Germany!
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Ever wondered about the gadgets in Lady Penelope's Rolls Royce? No, me neither, but here are the details anyway (from Lady Penelope annual 1972) pic.twitter.com/5q1GLmWH5b— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) June 27, 2018
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Olive Oil Sponge Cake With Mint Crumb, Sweet Milk Foam And A Baked Apple Puree |
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Coconut Mushroom Sweets |
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Lemon Drizzle Cake, Lemon Sponge, Chantilly, Lemon Gel |
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Photo: Hanna Hachula via Colossal |
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Image: Adam Schnack via The Spaces |
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image by Franklin Sayre Via Boing Boing |
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Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!"What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas.How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.— Leo Oppenheim, Letters from Mesopotamia
Today is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere! This painting by William Turner of Oxford features Stone Henge, where the summer solstice has been celebrated for thousands of years #SummerSolstice ☀️ pic.twitter.com/0v50RqHn2A— Ashmolean Museum (@AshmoleanMuseum) June 21, 2018
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Satellite image of Rub’ al-Khali May 29, 2018 by Lauren Dauphin (NASA Earth Observatory) |
阪急さんの座席を使った避難方法 pic.twitter.com/F6SAKfjinM— 中井 美里 (@misatiee1) June 18, 2018
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For centuries, an older manuscript sheathed a 1480 edition of the Vulgate. COURTESY NEWBERRY LIBRARY |
Suzanne Karr Schmidt, a curator of rare books and manuscripts at the Newberry Library in Chicago, jokingly describes these as “turducken books”—a book (or manuscript) within a book within a book. Repurposed scraps like these show up in several dozen places in the library’s collection, either as bindings, mends, or pieces used to reinforce spines.Read more: Atlas Obscura